The Samuel Johnson Page:

Pictures, Quotations, Links to Essays about Johnson

Portrait of Samuel Johnson after Sir Joshua Reynolds, 1770

Some Illustrations of Maxims and Observations in Samuel Johnson’s The Rambler (1750-1752)

Pictures of Samuel Johnson

“Cannot Be Painted”: Samuel Johnson on the Limits and Use of Painting

Quotations from Samuel Johnson's Works

Max Beerbohm

Ambrose Bierce

G.K. Chesterton

Theodore Dalrymple

Daniel Boorstin contrasts Samuel Johnson's and Benjamin Franklin's Circles

Walter Raleigh on The Rambler

Rambles: My own responses to ideas expressed in the The Rambler

Backstory to Rambles

Joshua Reynolds and Samuel Johnson

Gretchen Rubin and Samuel Johnson

An H.P. Lovecraft short story featuring Samuel Johnson

A Blackadder skit on Johnson (link to YouTube)

Jack Lynch's Guide to Samuel Johnson

A YouTube reading by Grover Gardner of Will Durant's Chapter on Samuel Johnson

Lillian de la Torre's Samuel Johnson: Detector tales

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